Ace Picks: Lexington Calendar for Sep 27 thru Oct 4, 2012

Another busy weekend for Lexington, Kentucky’s beautiful bluegrass region. How’s this for diversity: Scarefest, Andrew Bird, Leon Redbone, the Bourbon Chase, and Itzhak Perlman are all coming to town this weekend. We’ll have coverage and photos of all of the above all weekend long. And if you plan judiciously and consult the aceweekly.com calendar regularly, you too should be able to make a substantial dent in Lexington’s cultural landscape this weekend.

Scarefest kicks off Friday at the Lexington Convention Center — Clive Barker has canceled his appearance due to illness, but cast members from Lexington’s very own Girl Girl Scene will be on hand to sign autographs and whatnot (“it’s like Sex and the City…with lesbians…”). And speaking of Zombies (Scarefest will also include a Walking Dead cast member or two), Mecca has already kicked off rehearsals for the 2012 Thriller Parade — and the entire schedule is posted here.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Traffic reminders before you plan anything in Lexington on Saturday: what time is the UK game? Kickoff at Commonwealth is 7 pm, UK vs Gamecocks.

Andrew Bird was a standout at Louisville’s Forecastle Festival this summer, but Saturday night he’ll be right down the street at UK’s Singletary Center. Bird’s new CD, Hands of Glory, will be out October 30. It features a pair of new original songs by Bird, a reworked track from BIY and covers of songs by Townes Van Zandt, the Handsome Family, Alpha Consumer.

AND, if you’re looking for the perfect bucolic fall day trip, we have all of Central Kentucky’s fall festivals on the aceweekly.com calendar — this weekend’s Pick is the 42nd Annual Morgan County Sorghum Festival in West Liberty, Kentucky — proudly recovering from the tornado ravages with the annual crowning of the Sorghum Queen, a mule-drawn cane mill, live music, and a parade.

UK’s Singletary Center is getting a workout this weekend. Violin Virtuoso Itzhak Perlman returns to the bluegrass Sunday September 30. His last Lexington performance was a once-in-a-lifetime evening.

For a slightly different take on the Fiddle, a tall, lonesome bluegrass band we just love, Reel World String Band, is playing Sunday evening at Equus Run. (Want to see if they’re your cup of tea? Click here for a little snippet of video we shot of them June 2012.)

Kentucky Conservatory Theatre and Just Fund Kentucky present a staged theatrical reading of ’8,’ a documentary play about marriage equality. Clooney and Pitt have participated in some of the stagings, but Lexington’s performance will have some star wattage and surprise guests too.

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